Sign-exhibitor and display-rack.



E. G. & e. H. OUNY. SIGN EXHIBITOR AND DISPLAY BACK.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 23, 1908:

Patented June 22, 1909.

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Specification ot Letters Patent.

Patented June 22, 1909.

Application am We as, 1900. Serial No. season To all when it may comm: I

Be it known that we, Enwann G. Gum and Gnome H. Cum, citizens of the United States, and residents of Chico o, in the county of Cook, in the State of ois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sign -Exhibitors and Display- Racks; and we do hereby declare that the following description of our said invention,

taken in connection with the accompanying sheet of drawings, forms a full, clear, an exact s cation, which will enable others skill in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention has eneral reference to imrovements in cardolders and merchane-exhibiting stands; and it consists, essentially, in the novel and peculiar combination of parts and details of construction as hereinafter first fully set forth and described, andthen pointed out in the claims.

The object of this invention is the production of an efiicient and serviceable cardholder and merchandise exhibiting stand that shall, preferably, be constructed of a single iece of sheet-metal, and that shall be ca ab e of.being removably and tem orarily a ed to any sample, or merchan lse-container, that may be used upon any flat surface, such as a table, counter or other analogous furniture, and hold a card such as a price-card or label, &c., in either a vertical,

.or an inclined position; To attain the various objects just stated,

we construct this card-holder and merchandiseexhibiting stand substantially, as shown in the drawings already mentioned, in which- Figure 1 is a ers ective plan-view of this improved card- 01 er. Fig. 2 is a transverse-sectional elevation of the device in line a: :c, and Fig. 3 a similar view in line y y of Fi 4. Fi 4 is a face-view of the cardho der; an Fi 5 a plan of the blank from which the cardolder is produced. Fig. 6 is a sectional view of a portion of one of the legs of this device illustrating the application of a soft material to the lower, supporting, end of the card-holder.

Like parts are designated by corresponding bole and characters of reference in all the fires.

As eretofore stated, this device is, preferably, constructed from a single. iece of sheet-metal, and therefore, is forms from a blank A, Fig. 5, which is of substantially rectangular contour of any desired length and width, said blank having its two corners a, I), cut away or, as it is called by sheet-metal workers, notched, while the two opposite corners a b, are rounded off. This rectangular blank is folded or edged, along'its three sides on the dotted lines 0, d and 6, thereby forming, as it were grooves f, Fig. 1, mto

which a price, sampe, merchandise-holding,

or other card B ma be passed and removably retained in sai groovef.

Along one side of the blank A there are five, (more or less) projecting parts, g, g, h, h, and 'i, of these parts or lugs, the two outer ones g,'g 'and the middle one 11, are bent, at, approximately, right angles to the; rectangu ar part A, along the dotted lines 7', and their ends are outwardly curved at k, as shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3. These three projecting parts, 9, constitute supporting legs for the device, while the parts h h are rearwardly bent and curved, as shown, so as to form and constitute clamping-members whereby the device may be removably attached to a box or other merchandise-container O, as illustrated in Fi s. 1 and 2.

The device, thus far described, forms an efficient and durable card, &ci, holder, but in order to render the same still more serviceable, we provide in the members g g tapering incisions so as to form substantially g and i, when thus formed,

U-shaped members m m, when the portions m m are pushed out rearwardly and bend as shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, which members m m constitute clampingrongs to retain a card B in a position paral el with the memhere or legs g 9 In the central member '5, we provide a substantially V-shaped excision, 'n, to afford a barb or hook n, which effectually retains the card-holder upon the container C so that it cannot be easily pulled from said containerwithout first pulling on the member i to release the barb n from said container.

y thus arran ing the card-holder, we effectually ar against the same being stolen or vicious y or maliciously removed from the container. 4

It will now be readily observed that a cardholder, &c., as described, is ca able of being successfully emplo ed in near y every store,

factory or establis ment where designatingcards, price-cards, direction-cards, ostal and picture-cards, &c., &c., are exhi ited and offered for sale and also in dru and other stores for exhibiting samples w ich are on 7 sale, in furniture, &c. stores, where furniture,

.able metal having a, what is technically termed, hard temper, .and roduced in suitably-constructed dies, can e manufactured and sold at a very reasonable figure, and when polished and nickel-plated, antiquecopper finished, or other desirable method of coating or ornamenting resorted to, constitutes an elegant and very attractive card, and sample exhibiting fixture.

While We prefer to construct this device from a single piece of sheet-metal, we desire it distinctly understood that we may not confine ourselves to this method of producing the same for the reason that, if so desired, the leg, and clamping-members may be separately produced and attached to the rec tangular card-retaining portion A. So may the two clamping-members m m, instead of bein formed integral with the supportingmem ers g g be separately made and attached to said su porting-members, such changes being clear y within the province of the skilled mechanic and within the scope of my invention.

As a further modification, we may mention that the body A, may be made from any suitable material, other than sheet-metal, and the various other parts constitutin this novel device secured to said body A without departing from our invention; so may the blank A, instead of being folded along the dotted lines a, d and e be bent at right angles only, so as to roduce 8. led e upon which articles of mere andise offere for sale or on exhibition, may be placed, the blank A bemg made of a suitable size for this purpose. We desire to call particular attention to the fact that this device admits of holding a card either in a vertical, or substantially horizontal plane and, for that matter, also at any other angle. When, for instance, the conbers m m on the supporting-members, will be in an inclined plane, while if laced into the grooves f in the main body A, it would attain an approximately vertical position so that,

no matter in what position the device may be placed a card can be held thereon in aposition in which it ma be readily read. It will be further notice that when the device is placed upon a horizontal surface it is sustamed thereupon by the lower longitudinal edge of the body A and the supporting-members g, '11, and g, which in thls case serve as legs, the clamping-members h h adjacent to the su porting-members performing no function w atever; but when the device is to be attached to the wall of a box or other ,container C, then the sup orting-members g, i, and g cooperate with t e clamping-members h h to constitute clamps to retain the device on the container 0. It is only when the card or label B is to be held in the card-clampingmembers m m that the supporting-members g, and g coact with the members m m to serve as a clamp for the card or label B.

Having thus fully described this invention we claim as new and desire to secure to us by Letters Patent of the United States- 1. As an improved article of manufacture,

a card and merchandise exhibiting device comprising a main body, there being cardretaining grooves along three of the four edges of said body; su orting members on the fourth edge of saicFbody and extending at an angle with res eat to the body, and clamping members a jacent to the supporting members and cooperating therewith, whereby the said device 1s ada ted to be supported upon a horizontal su ace b the ooo eration'of said supporting mem ers and t at grooved edge of said holder which is opposite to the edge thereof to which said supporting members are attached, or removab y attached to an object having walls ada ted to be embraced by the sup orting an the clamping members, as descri ed.

2. As an improved article of manufacture, a card and merchandise exhibiting device comprising a main body, there being cardretalning grooves along three of the four edges of said body; sup orting members on the fourth edge of said ody; curved clamping members on said fourth edge adjacent to said supporting members, and auxiliary card-retaining members on the supporting members, said auxiliary members being a part of the supporting members.

3. A card and merchandise exhibiting device comprising a main bodg, there being In testimony that we claim the foregoing 10 card-retaining grooves along ee of the four as our invention we have hereunto set our edges of said bod sup orting members on hands in the presence of two subscribing witthe fourth edge 0 said ody; curved c1ampnesses.

. ing members on said fourth edge and adja- ED. G. CUNY.

cent to said supporting members, and auxil- GEO. H. CUNY. iary card-retaining members on the support- Attest:

. ing members, the whole being constructed s MICHAEL J. STARK,

from a single sheet of metal, as described. A. G. PETERSON. 

